Southern walnut chest of drawers with yellow pine secondary wood. Four graduated, dovetailed, scratch-beaded drawers with string inlay, barber pole inlay around the stiles and a shaped skirt, with central inlaid medallion on tapered Hepplewhite style feet. 42 1/4" H x 31" W x 16 3/4" D. Southern, circa 1850. Condition: Refinished, later inlay on […]
Lot 548: Two 19th Century Paint Decorated Child's Chairs
1st item – Child's red-painted bamboo Windsor high chair, possibly South Carolina, comprised of yellow pine and other woods. 33 1/4" H x 14 1/4" W x 11 1/2" D. 19th century. 2nd item – Pennsylvania child's continuous arm Windsor high chair with green paint and stencil decoration on splat. Evidence of earlier green and […]
Lot 545: Signed Indiana River Trade Cherry Bonnet Chest
Signed Indiana river trade cherry bonnet chest with poplar secondary wood. Two small central drawers flanked by two deep drawers over three graduated and cockbeaded drawers, all with oval eagle brasses and flanked by reeded turned pilasters, supported by turned feet. The piece is signed on the backboard "S. Kilgore West Cairo, Indiana." 46 1/4" […]
Lot 542: 11 Quadraped Etchings c.1800
Eleven hand colored etchings on laid paper of quadrapeds in their natural habitats (mostly rat/mouse family) by I. Nufsbiegel. Includes Lepus minutus Pall; Mus minutus Pall; Myoxus Muscardinus; Mus Lagurus Pall; Mus Cricetus Linn niger; Didelphys Marsupialis Linn; Arctomys Citillus; Sorex aquaticus Linn (2 views), Talpa europea Linn; and Arctomys Citillus. All approximately 8-1/2" x […]
Lot 543: Two 17th c. style Portraits of Dutch Gentlemen
2 Portraits Dutch Gentlemen, probably painted during the 19th century in the 17th century style. 1ST ITEM: Oil on canvas portrait of bearded gentleman in fur hat. Newer burled wooden frame. Sight: 10-3/4 x 10-1/8. Frame: 15-1/4 x 14-3/4. 2ND ITEM: Oil on board portrait of bearded gentleman with ruffled collar and brimmed hat. Old […]
Lot 541: 6 Ornithology Bird Prints & W. Lewin egg prints
Group of 6 ornithology bird prints. 1st- 3rd items: Three G.E. Edwards hand-colored prints, The Puffin and the Razorbill, Black-footed Penguin and The Wild Swan, plate: 9-1/4 x 7-1/2, sheet: 11-1/2 x 9. 4th Item: One E. Albin hand-colored print of spotted woodpecker, plate: 9-3/4 x 11-3/4, sheet: 11-1/2 x 8-5/8. 5th Item: Hand-colored print […]
Lot 540: 7 Zoology and Botany prints, 18th and 19th c.
Includes five colored animal engravings of quadrupeds Weibl Hippotamus v. Gordon, Der Tiger, Der Urson, and Der Pasan. Each has Buff n.d.Vier printed in lower left margin. Hinge mounted in ivory mats with gold highlights. 5-3/4" x 3-1/4" sight, 9-3/4" x 7" matted. Circa 1790. Together with a colored engraving of Hylobates Syndactyla (The Siamang) […]
Lot 539: Group of 18th c. butterfly, tick and spider prints
Item 1:Three Moses Harris (British, 1731-1785) Moth and Butterfly studies, hand-colored engravings on paper watermarked "J Whatman 1794". Plates X (plate size: 12" x 9-1/2"), XX (plate: 12" x 9-1/4"), III (plate: 10-1/4" x 9-3/8"). Paper: 16-1/4" x 11". Item 2: Group of 7 hand-colored Insects featuring ticks and spiders, late 18th C. Published by […]
Lot 537: 21 Matthias Merian Garden Engravings 1664 and 1714
21 Matthias Merian Prints, 17 from the first edition and 4 from the Valentini edition. Item 1: "Der Fruchtbringenden Geselschaft Nahmen Vorhaben, Gemalde und Worter" by Ludwig, Prince of Anhalt engravings by Matthias Merian first edition, published in Frankfurt, 1664. Plate include: 11, 35, 83, 127, 145, 188, 217, 252, 270, 280, 283, 294, 310, […]
Lot 538: 7 Shell Engravings, 18th century
Seven shell engravings from Les Delices Des Yeux et de L'esprit, ou Collection Generale des Differentes Especes de Coquillages Que La Mer Renferme, George Knorr, Nuremberg, 1764-73, drawn by J. C. Keller and C. Kleemann, plates engraved by G. Trautner, H. J. Tyroff, and V. Bischoff. Hand-colored copper engravings on laid paper, unframed, 10-1/4" x […]